Rivera as a coach

[juliosantos]

Let's take a second to truly think about Rivera as a coach for everyone in the fanbase that believes he's some kind of football savant and the best this franchise has ever had. First, let's look at his overall performance. Take away the 2015 season and over 7 seasons of football his record is 49-47-1 with a single playoff win over a team starting a guy named Ryan Lindley (I'll wait for you to Google him) as their QB. A .500 coach for 7 of his 8 seasons here with basically zero playoff success. Unless the Panthers pull a miracle and win their last 3 games, Rivera will have had 3 winning seasons in 8 years. John Fox had 3 winning seasons as well. John Fox walked into a situation with no franchise QB. He took a team that went 1-15 to a Super Bowl 2 years later. Then took us to another NFC Championship game 2 years after that. Rivera walked into a situation with a dynamic franchise QB and the year after was gifted a dynamic game changer on defense. One of the best linebackers to ever play the game of football. I'll concede the fact that Fox was gifted one of the best DEs to ever play the game and had one of the better WRs to ever play, so we will consider this point nearly even with a slight edge to Fox because of how important having a franchise QB is. John Fox teams were known to be mentally tough. The Cardiac Cats nickname came from his coaching era. They rarely made the big mistake to cost them the game. This year's team is one of the most mentally weak teams I've ever seen for the amount of talent they have, and that starts and ends with the head coach. Ron was always known as a coach that instilled discipline in his teams and you can't even say that anymore. Week after week this team has committed stupid penalty after stupid penalty. His late game management is some of the worst I've ever seen. The way he handled the end of the Seahawks game is truly one of the more laughbale moments in coaching I can personally think of. Fox was a better coach. Did just as much with less talent and had more playoff success. The way both coaches seemed to have lost the locker room towards the latter part of their stints is eerily similar though and I think is indicative that things will continue to spiral under Rivera.
"Butt muh 2 Coach of the Year awards!!!" Ok cool. Let's look at some of the other brilliant minds that have won CotY recently. 
2017- Jason Garret - 1 playoff win in 8 years
2012, 2010, 2008- Mike Smith won the award 3 times which should tell you all you need to know about how much of a joke it is - 1 playoff win in 7 years of being a head coach
2001- Dick Jauron - a career record of 60-82 and 0-1 in the playoffs
1996- Dom Capers (ah another Panthers coaching savant!) - a career record of 48-80 and 1-1 playoff record
1995-Ray Rhoades- a career record of 37-42-1 and a 1-1 playoff record
I believe you all are starting to see the point I'm making. That award is as meaningless as the teeball trophies I won when I was an infant. We as passionate fans deserve better than this. We have had 20+ years of being extremely mediocre. The team fired John Fox and got John Fox part 2. Enough is enough. We deserve a coach with the ability to get this team to perennial contender status. Even if your argument is he's the best we've ever had, in the grand scheme of things that means you are just willing to settle for being an average at best franchise. If you make a 50 on your math test, and everyone else makes 40s and 30s, it just means you are the least dumb dumbass in a room full of dumbassery.

[TheSpecialJuan]

Ron Rivera needs to slap himself and then fire himself 

[PleaseCutStewart]

Difference between Ron and a good coach... Ron will blame everyone else but himself and then say/do nothing to fix the problem

Meanwhile, Belicheck takes the blame for the Dolphins miracle yesterday, and you damn sure know he will address all problems from the game.

Despite losing 5 in a row and looking like ass in every one of those games, Ron will take his nonchalant approach of not giving a flying fug and then saying missed opportunities when we lose again next week